was forty 111iles by road, but he had bad luck. 1 he Germans had been strafing that road, too, that morning, and when the ambulance got within five miles of the hospital, it was blocked by two burn- ing ammunition trucks. The shells on the trucks were exploding. The squad- ron surgeon and the ambulance-driver put Horse on a stretcher and carried him around the trucks to a safe point on the other side, and an ambulance from the hospital came out to pick him up, but by the time it got there he was dead. "Then the shooting at the field was over, the pilots and the soldier and I got out of the hole and walked back toward the transports, which were still there. Norgaard climbed out of another hole not far away. He said that when he had jumped out of the jeep he had crawled under it, and there he had found a transport lieutenant who had had the same idea. They had given up the jeep after the first pass and run for it, just as I had already done. We stared at the parallel furrows the IVlesserschmitt can- non had plowed down the runway, as if they had been the teeth of a rake, and ourselves the field mice between them. The transport boys borrowed our jeep to get gas for the Spits, which had been immobilized during the raid because their tanks were empty. \Vhen the boys came back, we climbed into one of the transports. The big planes took off al- most immediately . "Lea ve them laugh- ing," Norgaard said to me when he re- covered sufficient breath to say anything. W E learned later that the strafing had been done by eight IVlesser- schmitts flying in four loose pairs, and that was why there had been four passes. Another IVlesserschmitt, making a run by itself, had dropped one bomb, in- effectually. There had also been a high cover of IVlesserschmitts; one of them had accounted for Horse. We were told that Cochran had said, with a hint of admiration in his voice, "It is getting so that the Germans patrol our field for us." A lot of Air Forces generals who were on a tour of inspection visited the field shortly after we left, said that the situation was very grave, and left, too. This point in the war over the field may be compared to the one in a \Vestern movie at which the villain has kicked hell out of the heroine and just about wrestled her to the brink of ruin in a locked room. At about two-thirty that same after- noon the Lafayette Escadrille was pa- trolling the field, in the company of two pilots from the American P-40 squadron that was commanded hy a 53 :......:.:,;. _ ) ' ; i . ,-.;::::-,: l; -' ..- ...d , / / /" .1 ('.\ \\ J} .. GOLD BRACELET GOLD AND RUBY EARRINGS $ 155 215. TWELVE ROYAL DOULTON CHINA ENTRÉE PLATES TWELVE GLASS GOBLETS TWELVE CLARETS OR COCKTAILS 42. 17. 16. ----- ... ------ . A WIDE SELECTION OF SMART GOLD JEWELRY. LARGE STOCKS OF FINE CHINA AND GLASSWARE. TIFFANY & Co FIfTH AVENUE & 5J1l' STREET N EW Yo RK 5MO.VGEAREUFOB \ ,"1;. .... & TIONLIVING-. :;: ,::',Y':;,,;, .,:, ',::, .1f ...K ':it' "ji/ ':1:::. ::.\ ;: i. :::::::. ';;,,'.:, .oIf. ...}. ::" :l': .:" , :", t::: ::::,:,::': \t':-i ",. ; I':, i;::;::i::::::Ji:i!:;i 'tij:: :'JÆJt :,,:.::tfm _.' ..,; .."\:; ! :C''' . : . :: : t . ; . :i:f :. f . : , , : } _ ' : ! . , ' :. ; . : , . :. ' : '. . r. :. :: . . :, ' :" : x " " : ' : : ' . ",::,,.,:,,:,,:, ",: " t::,::': ,'i::&f: :.:;é:ti..",,:<=:,:: . - -' {;:: i l r'" <t...,'\ f:r " A"..':"" .... :' .,:' l' '::::':'..:' ':-:' ;': , : , : , ' 0"'" '''' .. o i;.jj ill ' t.:: "".:.x,:: j:' .. ':, '" . ' =..." . ::": c;," Q <::> " ''''l , ff ''':".. ,... ACCESS.8 tl \1 . """,o'q.."\ *\() Cò '-"::'S'K/ , " 1 us c:. C\- " LLEb SERVICE Of THE "",,""\'\,: , su * : f. '1S- b.(lIGHTFUL A PPO I MTtt\ o UV 21 ST fl O ,-\1ro. \) ú "\ '. ,.....:",: l r;I;:: m',' -* ',.. >" ,:....:::y;J< :r::)*>þØ'::, ' ::,::* "Ø: , . :: . . . . . : :.::::;: , ." ii'..:" ". .;.-.;.: "J... --.':- :." ::., .:: . }t\ }::.1 " .:'x.. ::" : .: "<" , !tt ßt.:..::....... - FR,O M THE . . ':':'::'? $.: .:.:..: ..--':-: :-:'.':': .:.....y:...: :::::::.:;.-:. .; ::: :;::: l, Ii x::: ')'>. . :, ,:3/": / < iH ' " ': E B{):/',:::C""' "" I "{)> W ' (' ERS . ," ".;:;.::-:;:::.: ',: ." ," ," ::': ,'Of",.,:1IJE , ....:::::.....',.. .,. -# . U:::' ' ;;::.ytf( At1JDRf ASTDRIA :;:;:: ,-.. . . . .., ....... .. .. ...... . P:ARK A ÈNiJ A T.SOTH ": NEW YORK